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Patriarchy frames (cisheteroallo) maleness as the default, the same way that white supremacy frames whiteness as the default. That's why things that are associated with (cisheteroallo) masculinity are framed as neutral.
That said, when a fanbase is female-dominated, the backlash actually tends to be pretty significant. Think about how Cartoon Network literally stopped producing their Justice League series because it was popular with girls. Or how in its fifteen (dear God, fifteen!) seasons, Supernatural never stopped mocking the young women who made up the core of their audience. Books aimed at women are "chick lit." Books aimed at men are books.
Comment by Sea_Lingonberry_4720 at 28/01/2025 at 05:05 UTC
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The idea that young justice was cancelled because it was popular with women comes from an unsubstantiated tumblr rant.
I actually think we’re seeing a mirroring of your second point now. A ton of nerd, “male” media has to take constant pot shots at nerds, basement dwellers, incels, and the other “undesirables” that supposedly make up its audience and who obsess over every detail. I get some of it is warranted but a lot of it feels like “stop being critical and just consume slop!”
And being written off as for girls is also kind of a shield. Because it’s just dumb chick flicks they don’t have their problematic aspects analyzed, and whenever anyone actually criticizes negative aspects “it’s just for us girls stop taking it so seriously, you just hate it cus it’s for women” see the discourse over pedophilia and purity culture on twilight.
We’re at a time when a videogame having a girl in a bikini will be treated like when a movie kills a kid, meanwhile smut casually dominates the literature landscape and there’s no think pieces about how it’s problematic, or objectifying, or anything that you get with “guy stuff”.